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Northern Alberta Campaign Timeline
Week 1: September 3 - 9
9 weeks to campaign start: Pulpit theme - "New Opportunities"
- With church coordinator, confirm the strategies your
church will utilize
- Determine how many of your congregation will be involved in taking
the training
- With church coordinator, set material goals (estimated numbers of
packets required for your church)
- Begin to implement prayer strategy
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Week 2: September 10 - 16
8 weeks to campaign start: Pulpit theme - "God can use everyone"
- Prayer, Planning and Preparation week
- Continue to outline strategies
- Recruit assistants
- Determine church budget using the planning sheet
(download)
- Set aside “PtoC room” - physical facility for campaign
coordination and mapping
- Make plans to install more phone lines - if using
the Neighbourhood Strategy
- Set up equipment to show video next Sunday (Sept.
17)
- Prepare bulletin
insert #1 (Sept. 17) with campaign dates and local church contact
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Week 3: September 17 - 23
7 weeks to campaign start: Pulpit theme -"The Power to Change"
- Inform congregation of PtoC campaign happening:
- October 29 to December 3, 2000
- Introduce Promo video
- “Talking points”
- Tested in Southern BC in Feb. 99
- 600 Churches involved and 18,500 people trained
- 1.8 million people exposed to media message
through 4 high quality commercials, including Paul Henderson.
- 3 Maritime Provinces involved in 6 week campaign
- You will see 4 weeks of 60' commercials
- Manitoba / Ontario campaign in the spring of
2001
- Quebec in 2002
- Introduce church leadership team - draw attention to bulletin
insert #1
- Announce involvement of internet share.powertochange.com
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Week 4: September 24 - 30
6 weeks to campaign start: Pulpit theme -"Prayer - God is not willing
that any should perish."
- Challenge people to pray
- Encourage prayer to “take our community, Northern Alberta and Canada
for Christ”
- Share the prayer strategy for the church during PtoC
- Introduce Prayer coordinator and possibly a “prayer testimony”
- Check out www.canadainprayer.com
for the weekly prayer requests for the campaign.
- Show people how they can be involved in prayer and “sign them up”
(use bulletin insert #2)
Take time during the service to fill out the "Who am I praying
for" section
- Encourage church leadership team to attend “kick-off” rally to be
held in your area within the next 5 to 6 weeks
- NOTE: requests for materials must be forwarded to the Regional
Operations Coordinator by OCTOBER 5
NOTE: Ordering should include all materials - such as a banner,
window signs, and books.
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Week 5: October 1 - 7
5 weeks to campaign start: Pulpit theme -"Learning how to share
our faith."
- Challenge people to attend a PtoC training session
- Use a training bulletin insert
#3 with an outline of the training content and the schedule of training
events
- Have someone share a testimony who has recently shared their faith
with someone else
- Challenge people to attend the training. (The challenge for involvement
in the campaign will come later)
- Collect response form from bottom of bulletin insert. Submit results
to Regional Operations Coordinator
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Week 6: October 8 - 14
4 weeks to campaign start: Pulpit theme -"Praying for my Neighbourhood"
- Challenge people to take a prayer walk through their neighbourhood
- praying for each home
- Challenge people to ask God for “divine appointments” during the campaign
- Encourage people to sign up for the prayer strategy in your church
- Give an up-date as to how the campaign works and share God's faithfulness
in providing campaign funding
- Review the training schedule for your
region
- Make sure “PtoC room” set up is arranged and, if needed
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Week 7: October 15 - 21
3 weeks to campaign start: Pulpit theme -"Impacting Our Community"
- Explain to your congregation how your church will be involved with
the Power to Change campaign
- Neighbourhood strategies, Special Events and existing
church based ministries, Personal Opportunities (Divine appointments)
and Call center/Internet response
- Use bulletin insert #4
to outline the strategies
- Inform your people as to how they can get involved
- Continue to motivate people to take the training
- Encourage people to pray and to become part of the prayer strategy
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Week 8: October 22 - 28
2 weeks to campaign start: Pulpit theme - "Investing in Evangelism"
- Continue to share the vision to impact your city/region with the Gospel
- Share your local church budget and explain how the funds will be invested
in reaching people
- Challenge people to give through a special offering to cover the cost
of materials for the campaign
- Encourage people to attend special "days of prayer & fasting" in your
region (Communication will come from the prayer Chairman in your
region)
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Week 9: October 29 - November 4
1 week to campaign start: Pulpit theme - "For such a time as this"
- Show the promo video again reminding your people of the impact of
the campaign in BC and Atlantic Canada - see the weekly communication
for statistics and stories
- Challenge people to take their prayer walks in their neighbourhood
- Inform people of orientation meetings that will be held in your church
within the next 10 days for all trained workers to show how each person
will be involved in the campaign (The church coordinator and the senior
pastor should run these meetings)
- It is not too late to take the training! Remind people of remaining
training dates for your region
- Share information regarding the special events that will be held in
your region as well as church
based events under the “power to change” theme.
See the internet - share.powertochange.com
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Week 10: November 5 - 11
Campaign starts. Pulpit theme - "Christ is the Power to Change"
- Encourage people to pray for people on the "Who am I praying
for" list
- Use this week to have orientation meetings with your people so that
they know what to do as their part in your churches campaign strategy
- Encourage people to use the “PtoC room” as the main communications
center. (Picking up information, dropping off completed assignments
and sharing results.)
- Make sure you have picked up your supply of PtoC packets from the
distribution center (depot)
in your region
- Encourage people to respond through “way of life” witnessing opportunities
as people within their sphere of influence see the commercials
- Hang up the "Power to Change" banner on the church
- Make available PtoC window signs
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Week 11 - 14: November 12 - December
9
Campaign is underway. Church Strategy implementation
Pulpit theme - "Christ is the Power to Change"
- Challenge people to continue pray for divine appointments and for
boldness on the part of Christians to share their faith. Pray for a
“spirit of conviction and need for forgiveness” to descend upon your
region
- Remind people of the special events that are being held in your
region and to bring un-churched friends, neighbours, relatives,
etc.
- Implement your church strategies during this three week period
- Praise God for the results
- Use the pulpit during this time to allow people to share how God is
using them
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Week 15: December 10...
Post Campaign
- Praise God for changed lives including what He has done in ours
- Encourage your trained workers to make follow-up appointments with
their contacts. Encourage them to use the 4 follow-up lessons in the
PtoC booklet. Encourage people to look at the Jesus Film on the CD ROM
- Tabulate your results and forward to your regional operations center
- Attend the praise rally (if one is being held)
- Fill out the evaluation forms (supplied by the PtoC office)
- Close down your "PtoC room" unless you want to keep going!
- Look at Alpha for an alpha group set up in your region or to review
the application of the Alpha Program, order the required supplies, and
start one in your area or church.
- Consider Power To Grow as a follow-up.
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